Irish cream tartlets
And now for something completely different....! This is another recipe to use up a Christmas leftover, but this time it's a small bottle of Baileys that we were given in a hamper. We were invited for a meal to a friend's house last weekend and she'd asked me to bring something sweet to have with coffee after the meal. An unusual request, so I hunted through my cookbooks and eventually came up with these little tartlets. I made some sweet pastry, but shortcrust would do as well. I used 175g flour etc. and this made 12 tartlets. You need 12 little moulds or barquettes - these are the ones I used. I bought them on a whim years ago and have never used them! I have 3 of each shape. Line the greased moulds with the pastry and bake blind. For the filling you need: 150g plain chocolate, melted 120ml milk 3 egg yolks 2 tbsp caster sugar 3 tbsp plain flour 4 tbsp Baileys Irish liqueur 4 tbsp whipping cream, whipped Chocolate shavings or cocoa to decorate. Put ...